Rich Shulman
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Rich Shulman
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Cooking up trouble.
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I am fascinated by this fourth wall–breaking footnote from Justice Jackson criticizing the majority for handing the Trump administration "a notch in its belt at the start of a legal battle in which the long-term prospects for its eventual success seem doubtful." It's more about optics than law ...
Indeed, other than paving the way for the Plaintiff States’ immediate suffering, it appears that the primary effect of today’s emergency stay is to hand the Government an early “win”—a notch in its belt at the start of a legal battle in which the long-term prospects for its eventual success seem doubtful. And I don’t blame the Government for trying. If you’re likely to lose on the merits, why not use the Court’s procedures to fight on new and creative fronts? The Government has now gotten this Court to nullify clearly warranted interim injunctive relief, deflecting attention away from the Government’s own highly questionable behavior, all without any showing of urgency or need. I worry that permitting the emergency docket to be hijacked in this way, by parties with tangential legal questions unrelated to imminent harm, damages our institutional credibility.
April 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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They're libertarians who want a US Treasury bailout for their fake money
March 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM